Archive List > Books > Growing Up in Wartime Britain by Elaine McArthy Elaine in cousin Sandy's drummer's uniform before his call-up in 1939. Chapter 1: Evacuee and Blitzee On Sunday morning, 3rd ...

BRITISH foreign policy has been most consistent since the autumn of 1931, when the Conservative Party secured that control of public affairs in England which it has never since even seen threatened.

Archive List > Books > Growing Up in Wartime Britain by Elaine McArthy Wounded in action! Elaine in one of the American dresses (but not the favourite one!) Edinburgh 1944/45 Part 3: Victory and ...

Historian Shambrook (French Imperialism in Syria, 1927–1936) offers an exhaustive study of official diplomatic documents pertaining to Britain’s control of Palestine. Confident that the Ottoman Turks ...

In the Cheshire village of Great Paxton, uniformed men rumble by in army trucks, daily reminders to the villagers of the men who will inevitably soon be called up. The time is 1939, three weeks after ...

What Was the Phony War? British aircraft production, part of the mobilization in Great Britain, 1939 In Episode 2 of World on Fire, Harry Chase urges Britain to act, telling his commander, “We ...

Less than 18 hours after Great Britain and France declared war on Germany, plunging nearly 300,000,000 persons of nations around the globe into war, Hitler's forces apparently had struck the first ...

LONDON, Sept. 3, 1939 (INS) - Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proclaimed to the British empire and the world at large today that Great Britain and Germany are at war, a conflict that may lead to a ...

Britain’s 1939 Register, which lists all its citizens from labourers to royalty, is finally available to those researching their family tree. These records, known as the 1939 Register, provide a ...